Caleb Luke: Favorites

Aug 2017 Caleb Luke

Born

Reading your poems makes me feel something

Some   love

Some    hate

Some    pain

Some   lust

Some    hope

Some regrets

Some fairy tales

Reading your poems makes me see some

Some crushing stories stuck on repeat
Some words screaming for help
Some hate for take nology
Some mystic life stories
Some some some for Donald Trump

                       Some tears for peace
                         Some trust in God

Jul 2017 Caleb Luke

Nomads

Jul 2017 Caleb Luke

Hannah

Nomads

I've never been to the city,
but I've spent a million nights
lost beneath the starlight.
I used to dream of subway stations,
lively streets and crowded bars,
but after wandering through forgotten towns,
and sleeping under starlanced
trees,
I could never live in the city.
I've never felt peace
like I have at the shores
of a perfectly still creek.
I wouldn't find that there,
not between the mugger's,
and people yelling in the streets.
I thought I wanted it,
but after traveling across the country,
I know what makes my soul happy.
I want sunrises after 12 hours of driving,
with no direction,
but towards the setting sun.
I want nothing,
but the security of me and you
moving along with the current
of our nomadic souls.

❤︎

#love #traveling #life

Jul 2017 Caleb Luke

Resurrection

Jul 2017 Caleb Luke

Hannah

Resurrection

Black birds fly,
raven's sing,
there's ash on
the window sill

red bird's wing,
feathers white,
time slows down
as we pass by

salmon swim,
black bears cry,
as slowly
she closes her eyes

nighttime falls,
red wolves howl,
way up on
the mountain peak

fragile bones,
fallen trees,
a hundred years of sleep

someday you
may just find
a woman king,
a hundred years of peace.

#love #poetry #ironwine

Jul 2017 Caleb Luke

Yes, I Regret

Jul 2017 Caleb Luke

Carl Halling

Yes, I Regret

Yes, I regret
The scornful dissipation
Of my salad days
When I was strong,

Believe me,
They didn’t last too long,
Believe me,
They didn’t last too long.

Yes, I regret
All that I squandered
O’er the course
Of about fifteen years,

Believe me,
I’ve cried quite a sea of tears,
Believe me,
I’ve cried quite a sea of tears,

Yes, I regret
If I e’er acted cavalierly
Towards any who sought to love me
With a trusting heart,

Believe me,
I’m not so proud of my past,
Believe me,
I’m not so proud of my past.

'Yes, I Regret' was written - and recorded as a song - in 2017, with new, autobiographical lyrics tacked onto a melody sketched out on piano when I was about 24.

#regret #scorn #dissipation #squander #cry

Jul 2017 Caleb Luke

?

Jul 2017 Caleb Luke

Born

?

Are you a gangster or
a thief seeking attention

Are you an artist or
a voyager painting words

Are you a poet or
a plagiarist seeking love

Are you a Saint or
a sinner searching for salvation

Are you my heart or
a tattooed scar stuck on my chest

Are you a fisherman or
a sailor giving life a second chance

Are you the moon or
a lonely sun ravaging through your days

Are you moving forward or
dragging through tormenting memories

Jul 2017 Caleb Luke

TOTGA

Jul 2017 Caleb Luke

M

TOTGA

I saw you
listening to an old tale folk,
Sincerely falling backward through time,
I though I was the one you wanted back.

You saw me,
Like a future fairy tail of yours.
Mentioning how humorous I was
Asking for a second time for us.

Then last night,
I cried like it was the first time
I fell onto the ground.
Savoring the pain I grasped.

It was she
You saw your futuristic heartbeat
Who captured your second time us
And Sincerely wanting her back.

I saw us,
But it is just a past.

My one that got away.

My one last farewell to you, Berns Felizco. someday somehow, our paths will cross again, and trust me, you will realize I'm the one that got away

Jul 2017 Caleb Luke

Suicide

Jul 2017 Caleb Luke

Ether

Suicide

I tried to **** myself
Regretful
Moreso, that failure

You know, its so easy to die. Slip into oblivion and say nothing matters. To hide your sorrow until tomorrow disappears.

I woke up with thick grey half moons under my eyes, yellow-grey toned skin, one half red eye and a dozen bruises on my neck.

I dont want to lose the innocence i have left. This is my confession. Hatred burns in my heart, but not just at myself anymore & if it is not my fault i can never change this terrifying world. I feel so small, i could blink & disappear...

But still, somehow, in my absence, in the simple threat of loss, fear and pity enter the hearts of those among me. So vile. So heartbreaking. The tears on my moms face having driven three hours to see me are the worst waters i might encounter. A tsunami of emotion.

Life is pain. Death is emptiness. Suicide may be relief, but failure is guilt.

Is there a balance somewhere?

#suicide #suicidal #depression #ptsd

Jul 2017 Caleb Luke

Persevere

Jul 2017 Caleb Luke

Urmila

Persevere

Cannot overemphasise the importance of never giving up,
If you believe in a cause, a person, an idea, with every cell in your body,
No matter what logic and books and your friends and the internet may say,
If you have faith in something,
You owe it to yourself, and the object of your belief,
To fight -
Every hurdle in your way,
And if that hope and belief survives every hurdle...

So will you

It's not time to give up; it will never be.

— The End —